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ALDO2 is a multi-function, adjustable, low dropout linear regulator designed in onsemi I3T80 0.35~$\mu$m HV CMOS technology for use in HEP detectors that adopt silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). The chip features four independent regulators,…
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Increasing the efficiency and reducing the footprint of on-chip photodetectors enables dense optical interconnects for emerging computational and sensing applications. Avalanche photodetectors (APD) are currently the dominating on-chip…
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Genomic sequence alignment is an important research topic in bioinformatics and continues to attract significant efforts. As genomic data grow exponentially, however, most of alignment methods face challenges due to their huge computational…
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The wav2vec 2.0 and integrated spectro-temporal graph attention network (AASIST) based countermeasure achieves great performance in speech anti-spoofing. However, current spoof speech detection systems have fixed training and evaluation…
Recent advances in unsupervised speech representation learning discover new approaches and provide new state-of-the-art for diverse types of speech processing tasks. This paper presents an investigation of using wav2vec 2.0 deep speech…
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Amplitude-coherent (AC) detection is an efficient detection technique that can simplify the receiver design while providing reliable symbol error rate (SER). Therefore, this work considers AC detector design and SER analysis using M-ary…
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